Volta Region needs a break with anonymous letters

Ho (Volta Region) -- Mr James Dogbe, Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called for a break with anonymous letter writing against personalities appointed to preside over the region's development.

Mr Dogbe was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency on how the NPP government would tackle the region's development.

He said anonymous letter writing against personalities in the region was a major factor holding back its development over the years.

Mr Dogbe said people who have goodwill and good intentions towards the region's progress were unable to translate their visions into concrete achievements because of anonymous letters.

He therefore appealed to chiefs, church leaders and other influential persons in the region to find ways of discouraging the practice.

Mr Dogbe said President John Agyekum Kufuor has a lot of goodwill towards the region and will require an energetic corps of leaders who can push the region's interest at the highest level.

On President Kufuor’s trip to Lome for the 34th anniversary of President Gnassingbe Eyadema's Presidency in Togo, Mr Dogbe said it is in accordance with the Danquah-Busia tradition to use dialogue to change political systems shunned by the international community.

He recalled that the late Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of the Second Republic, championed contacts with the apartheid regime in South Africa as a way of ending that system instead of isolating it.